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I A TT a a Yee HATE EEA SG GE a i i i E June 24,1999 -- Herald/Times Page 7B Inside Racing Editor, Mike Cearley June 23 & 24, 1999 Een Neeeee eer eee eee eee eee aa eee tee Eee Eee LaLa eae eee s eee ee eee eee eee 800 8a eee eee eee ee a aaa he ee Ae eee eee eee eae ea eee eee hae eee eee Eee eee ee ea ee ae eee ese e eee eee ee Pe ee eee eee 8 eee 8 eee a eee ea Ae ae ee eee eee eee eee Aha ee eee eed A Ae a AAS Ee eee eee AeA eae e eee aaa eae see e eee ease Resear att aete naan aan Mike Cearley Racing Editor |. Jeff Oaks & son, Kale: : Times have - : changed. %, Oaks is a contender When Kings Mountain’ s Jett! Oaks first broke into. thet: Thunder & Lightning: ranks 10; years ago, he was barely, a: pretender much ; lessi: a contender. In those days Joe Robinson: was the Robinson was unbeatable inhis : infamous blue Camaro: as, hed roared to more than 300 T&L victories, most of them at | Carolina Speedway. Only a handful of drivers: could even run in the top five with Robinson, and Oaks i usually wasn’t one of them. : “Times have changed,” Oaks said after he beat Robinson fair: and square in a thriller at: Carolina last Friday. “When 1: first statbedVracin 4 1989; Jou Robinson’ @6ldn #58 eat TE took a lot of luck to beat Joe, } and he had to have some bad : luck, and that just didn’t: happen: “Now I have a car capable of winning at any track. The cars : are pretty equal now.” The T&L playing field was: evened when thei new: management took over: at} Carolina in May. East Lincoln : Speedway’s Boyd and Ernie: Knight, Richard Meabon; and. .: Dewey Stump imposed a: 3,000. i pound weight limit onthe: division. “There were drivers like Mike Messer whose cars were | lighter than the others that r: at different’ tracks 'like’ East Lincoln,” Oaks said. “Now: they: all weigh the same and that has made the division" Aére’ competitive.” vig Friday's win was Oaks’ third’! this year and his first’ ’over: Robinson. A week earlier ‘he’: finished second ‘behind Robinson. ; Friday, Oaks started on the: pole and led from start to‘finish.;. But it was no joy ride. : Robinson, Messer, Jim: Patterson and Andy Thompson were all playing tag Frit j four-wide on Oaks’ bumper. oh Midway into the race, Mess passed Robinson for second as Oaks gradually began to pull: away in his black and ora Camaro. ; remaining tightened the’ fiel for a two-lap dash for paydir The running order was' Oak Messer, Robinson, Patterson and: Thompson. whi Oaks got a good jump on th restart, but his mirror was full of} Messer. But a cut right front tire: sent Messer to the rear and: Oaks held off Robinson. co: i Patterson finished third} : Thompson fourth and Messer, came from ‘the rear to post at fifth-place finish. 13 “It was the most competitive : race of the season,” Oaks said i “But I knew I had the car to; beat. Everything was working right.” In victory lane, Oaks had an early Father’s Day celebration with his 17-year old son ‘Kale: Kale, a rookie in the Mod 4 : division, finished fifth in his : race. It was his fourth top-five ; finish of the season. : Thunder , King. v tour irt Track ‘No luck on the home front for Johnny Bridges Ew Mike Cearley Racing Editor Cherryville’s Johnny Bridges seems to get snake bit everytime he ventures into his own backyard. The rising young star on the American Sprint Car Series is “ “doing well for himself in just his second year on the tour, but he’s “having problems putting on a show for his hometown fans. Bridges entered last Friday's ASCS race at Thunder Valley ~ Speedway full of high hopes. In ‘his Thunder Valley Sprint Car debut earlier, this season Bridges dominated the main event until a broken power steering hose sent him to the “pits. 4 Friday, Bridges had to borrow “a car after his car blew an “engine during heat races. He EE a ninth place finish as “Billy Wilburn took the victory. “We just can £3 seem to get a ‘hometown win,” Bridges said. ““We won a big race in Savannah 5 “and another one in Fayetteville, i but I just can’t get that win in front of the hometown crowd.” _ Bridges will have another ichance this Friday, as the ASCS invades Carolina ‘Speedway. “That's where I started my ET SY RHR RRR racing career 10 years ago,” Bridges said. “I started out in a Baby Bomber car, then moved all the way up through the ranks to the super late model division. “Since I didn’t get the win at Thunder Valley, I'll try again this week at Carolina. Both tracks are right in my backyard.” Besides running in some of the regional sprint car circuits, Bridges has tasted competition in the nation’s premier sprint car circuit, the World of Outlaws. “Running in the World of Outlaws is my ultimate goal,” Bridges said. “We're talking to some sponsors. The Outlaws travel all over the United States, so itll take some money. But it would be worth it.” Bridges finished sixth in a World of Outlaws race during Memorial Day weekend at Williams Grove, Pa. Then he drove all night back home to prepare his car for the ASCS race at East Lincoln Speedway. He finished fourth there, as Wilburn took yet another victory. For now, Bridges is putting all his winnings back into his car. “We put our winnings back in so we can race next week,” he said. RRS LOCAL TRACK ROUNDUP RR Right- Cherryville’s Johnny Bridges hopes to finally get a win in front of his hometown friends as the American Sprint Car Series comes to Carolina Speedway Friday night. Below-Bridges (07) makes a move during a recent American Sprint Car Series race at East Lincoln Speedway Saturday, June 4,1999. Moyer wins first round of Hav-A- ‘Tampa’ ‘Midwest Tour Billy Moyer of Batesville, : Ark. drove his Grand Prix to his i third victory of the 1999 United : Dirt Track Racing Association : Hav-A-Tampa Dirt Racing i Series last Friday night in the i Coca-Cola 75 at Kentucky Lake "Motor Speedway. The 1997 Hav-A- -Tampa ‘champion took the lead from Shannon Babb of Decatur, Ill. on “lap 59, in an event that saw four ‘lead changes among four i different drivers and four-wide i racing all night long in front of a i packed house. Rick Aukland of Fargo, N.D. ‘turned in his best HAT effort of ‘the season with a second place finish in his Monte Carlo. Babb - brought his Grand Prix home in Jihad spot. Steve Francis of Ashland, Ky. finished fourth in a Monte Carlo, while fifth went to HAT point leader Dale McDowell of Rossville, Ga. in a Monte Carlo. Sixth through 10th spots “respectively went to Terry Phillips of Springfield, Mo., 1996 HAT champion Freddy ‘Smith of Kings Mountain, Wendell Wallace of Batesville, Ark., Terry English of Benton, Ky., and Bill Frye of Greenbrier, Ark. Wallace set fast time honors among 46 entrants with “a lap in 15.103 seconds. The 18-day, nine-race Midwest Tour continued Saturday at Paducah, Ky. International Raceway and Sunday at the DuQuoin, Ill. Fairgrounds. Tuesday, the HAT drivers hit Davenport, Iowa, Fairgrounds before heading to Cedar Lake Speedway in Wisconsin for The Masters this weekend. Complete Line of Racing Parts Available) *AERQ Wheels * Hypercoil * Carrera Truck & Car Tires * Custom Wheels © B.E. Goodrich © Bridgestone BARNES RACE PARTS & COMPLETE TIRE | SERVICE KEVIN BARNES (704)435-8727 3117 TRYON COURTHOUSE RD. CHERRYVILLE, NC Galloway shakes slump James Galloway ended six weeks of misery Friday when he won the Late Model main event at Carolina Speedway. Galloway, the defending late model champion, had not won since racing first moved to Fridays last month. His win ended six weeks of domination by East Lincoln’s regular Late Model drivers. Donald Wilkes finished second, Todd Bolin third, Everette Dunlap fourth and Tim Sigmon fifth. Rookie Rob McLaughlin, who had two firsts and two seconds in his first four races, broke a drive shaft during heat races and did not make the main event. In Mod 4 action, Jerry Oliver won his 17th race of the season after Arnold Propst was disqualified for illegal heads. Propst dominated the race, but was protested by Oliver, who finished second. Russell Falls returned to the winner’s circle for the fourth time in five races. Falls, the 14- year old phenom from Cherryville, won three in a row after picking up his first-ever win on May 21. On June 11, he was forced to start the main event in the rear and his winning streak ended. Sprint cars invade Carolina this week The American Sprint Car Series will make its season debut at Carolina Speedway this Friday. All the top ASCS drivers are expected to compete. Gates open at 5 p.m. and qualifying for main events start at 7:30. Childress Bi winner at Thunder Valley Scott Childress won last Friday's $2,000 Mod 4 main event at Thunder Valley Speedway as 40 cars entered the field. Scott Tessner finished second and Richard Crowe finished third. Super Late Model cars will return this week for a special feature. Promoter Ernie Elkins is promising one of the strongest fields ever of Super Late Model cars on Thursday, July 15 for the Grassy Smith Memorial. East Lincoln rained out East Lincoln Speedway canceled its Saturday program after a steady rain moved across Stanley Saturday night. Heat races were the only action before the rains came. The track will reopen for its regular program this Saturday. Hobgood on the move Former Chester Motor Speedway promoter Jake Hobgood is making a name for himself on NASCAR's Goody's Dash Series. Hobgood outraced his younger brother Justin for second place behind winner Robert Huffman in Saturday’s Winston Fan Appreciation 125 - at Louisville Speedway. Area dirt tracks Carolina Speedway, Highway 274 South (Union Rd.), Gastonia 704-869-0313 Promoter: Dewey Stump Racing: Friday nights, . Admission: $10 grandstand, $15 pits. Divisions: late model, thunder & lightning, limited sportsman, super stock 8, modified 4, pure stock 4. Thunder Valley Speedway 248 Old Statecoach Rd., Lawndale 704-538-9666 Promoter: Ernie Elkins Racing every Friday night. Admission: $10 Grand Stand; $16 Pit. Divisions: super late model, late model, thunder & lightning, UMP modified, limited sportsman, mod 4, stock 4, rookie 4. East Lincoln Speedway, 1873 Mariposa Rd., Stanley 704-263- 5347 Promoters: Boyd Knight, Richard Meabon Racing every Saturday night. Admission: $10 grandstand, $15 pits. Divisions: late model, thunder & lightning, pure stock 8, open mod 4, mod 4, pure stock 4, sprints. Jake Hobgood is currently in fourth in the Goody’s point standings behind, Hi Huffman, Brandon Head and “Eddie Kelley. ! The Hobgoods have an older brother Will who is a former Dash Champion. Will Hobgood was a regular in the Late Model division at Carolina Speedway a | few years ago. The Hobgoods hail from Winnsboro, S.C. Dennis (Rambo) Franklin Rambo snaps Week's streak Dennis “Rambo” Franklin snapped Ricky Weeks’ four-race win streak with a Super Late Model win at Cherokee Speedway in Gaffney, S.C. Flintstone Flyer Mike Duvall finished second, while Weeks came home third. Ron Parker won his second straight Limited Late Model race, but not without a fight from a couple of former Carolina Speedway rivals. Buddy Smith and Doug Sanders dueled for the second spot, with Smith winning that duel. Sanders was third, while Roddey Bolin finished fourth. Results for Racing June 18 & 19 Thunder Valley Speedway Limited Sportsman Bo Mace Tim Smith .... Michael Brock Andy Clark ...Scott Childress Scott Tessner ... Richard Crowe Tim Smith Mike Wilson Tommy Reeves Tim Bowen ...Marvin Pope .Kelly Pearson ....Stéve Baile .... Ray Warlic Brian Carswell y Champion Ricky Fox ... Terry Wright Carolina Speedway Late Model James Galloway ... Donald Wilkes Everette Dunlap Thunder & Lightning eff Oaks .Joe Robinson im Patterson A Pure Stock Billy Greenway Keith Patterson erry Oliver ennis Kurt Danny Freeman .... Shannon Barnhill Pure Stock 4 Russell Falls ....Chad Absher hard McKenzie Chris Dunlap Cherokee Speedway Super Late Model Dennis Franklin Mike Duvall Ricky Weeks Petey Ivey imited Late Models Ron Parker ..Buddy Smith Doug Sanders Roddey Bolin Limited Sportsman Billy Randolph Ken Pearson Buddy Lamb Chris Steele Bryan Conard ...Scott Childress Scott Tessner Jerry Caton David Blanton Keith Morgan ....Brad McBrayer Mike Wilson
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